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Lehigh and Lafayette have split their two regular season meetings, but both need to do better in their final two Patriot League games this week. If both go 2-0, they could end up as the Nos. 2 and 3 seeds in the league tournament, which has its quarterfinal and semifinal rounds…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Little room was open on the baseline when Lafayette College senior guard Kim Costello began her dribble toward the basket, and ultimately, triumph, in her final home game at Kirby Sports Center Sunday afternoon. Leopards junior forward Colleen Fitzpatrick, who had been the most…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette College senior guard Andrew Pleick saved his best scoring game for his final home game at Kirby Sports Center Sunday. He also handled the ball with exceptional care and did a good job distributing it to his teammates, much like he has all season. But when the Leopards’…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →About the only thing that kept Justin DeBerry from practicing in those scorching Tucson, Ariz., summers was a dust storm. Outside of that, the Lafayette College guard shot jumpers in his backyard for hours, unconcerned about heat stroke despite 100-degree temperatures. “You get…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Justin DeBerry and Winston Davis, two players Lafayette College needs to have solid performances in most games to have a chance to win, both struggled shooting Friday night against Bucknell at Kirby Sports Center. Without either in peak form, Lafayette couldn’t keep pace with a…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Trying to figure out what’s in the brain of former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is a task many psychiatrists might find difficult, so Larry Holmes is not even going to attempt. All Holmes, who held the heavyweight title 1978-85, can really do is speak about the general…
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Read on mcall.com →Making the adjustment from the high school to college game has been, at times, a smooth experience for Lehigh freshmen Chris Stephenson and Mitch Gilfillan. At times, however, it’s also seemed dreadful. Like the games where neither plays much or scores any points. Stephenson, a…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The woeful experiences Temple has had for most of the season seemed to have lightened once February arrived. It’s the month the Owls under coach John Chaney normally play better, The Owls, who were drubbed 78-59 by Saint Joseph’s on Feb. 13, rebounded two nights later with a…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh found American University not so hospitable, losing 69-59 Saturday at Bender Arena. The loss was Lehigh’s third straight on the road to a Patriot League team, preventing coach Billy Taylor from winning his 16th game and placing his name in the school record book for…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Saint Joseph’s just never stopped going full speed, even when Temple seemed to have their course blocked with traps. Few teams have been able to slow Saint Joe’s down, especially when junior guard Jameer Nelson is driving the offense at a pace that leaves one defender after…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →In normal games, Lafayette College guard Justin DeBerry could probably keep track of his rebounds in his head. But the 6-3 junior was scrapping so hard to get position and yank down boards in the Leopards’ 57-43 Patriot League victory over Army Wednesday night at Kirby Sports…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Webster Dictionary definition of ugly was played out early and often in the Lehigh-Bucknell Patriot League game Tuesday night at Stabler Arena. Both teams shot a barrage of bricks and had no rhythm from the opening tip-off on. But despite shooting 38 percent from the field,…
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Read on mcall.com →Making the varsity basketball team at the United States Naval Academy as a freshman this season was starting to look like an impossibility for former Parkland star Adam Lane until his coach called him over after a JV practice for some stunning news. “Coach just called me and…
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Read on mcall.com →Years of playing and making six-figure salaries as a professional basketball player has spoiled former Lehigh University great Daren Queenan, who was considering applying for an assistant coaching job at Winthrop University until he was told about the salary. “When coach [Gregg]…
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Read on mcall.com →Despite his arm being smacked, Zlatko “Zo” Savovic hung in the air long enough to dish to Matt Crawford for a one-handed dunk. It was just another in a long list of deft plays the Lehigh senior guard made against Navy Saturday night. Behind Savovic’s well-rounded play and senior…
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Read on mcall.com →His right arm numb and in pain from being hit in the funny bone, Lafayette College forward Mike Farrell quickly turned to the nearest official and called for a timeout with a minute remaining. By no means was the timeout for Farrell to leave the game. He just needed to regroup.…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →His right arm numb from being hit in the funny bone, Lafayette College forward Mike Farrell quickly turned to the nearest official and called for a timeout with a minute remaining. By no means did Farrell want to leave the game. He just needed to regroup. But the way Farrell…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Once Billy Taylor decided to pass up the 9-to-5 job and start coaching basketball, it seemed likely he’d rise quickly from assistant coach to Division I head coach. That’s what Fran McCaffery thought. The former Lehigh coach, now in his fourth season as coach of the University…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Two tough road losses last weekend to Holy Cross and Colgate did not spoil what was a successful first half of play in the Patriot League for the Lehigh men’s basketball team. The losses — 63-39 at Holy Cross and 77-68 at Colgate — have the Mountain Hawks waiting impatiently to…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →His first shot went through the nets kind of like cotton balls being dropped in a bucket. It was just that smooth. But shooting wasn’t the only part of Saint Joseph’s guard Jameer Nelson’s game that was smooth. His ball-handling and drives to the basket were so dynamic that…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →A road trip that began with the Lehigh men holding onto sole possession of first place in the Patriot League, ended with a second straight setback. It wasn’t for a lack of hustle because Lehigh played hard on both ends of the court in a 77-68 loss to Colgate Sunday in a Patriot…
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Read on mcall.com →It was 18 seconds of pulsating, heart-pumping action, and at the end of the frenzy Friday night, Lehigh junior Teniece Johnson stood at midcourt with her arms raised. Johnson’s pick off of in inbounds pass enabled Lehigh to rejoice and go dancing off Holy Cross’ Hart Center…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh’s big challenge against Patriot League defending champion Holy Cross was more of a big chill, and ultimately a big letdown in a 63-39 loss Friday night at the Hart Center. Nobody in a Lehigh uniform made a field goal in the first half except senior guard Zlatko Savovic,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Nobody is likely to ask the significance of playing in a Big 5 game if they saw the way La Salle and Penn were scrapping and clawing Tuesday night at The Palestra. But La Salle, which started three freshmen and two sophomores, just couldn’t match the poise, execution, and like…
· Andre D. Williams
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